Participants
Meet the experts driving this programme forward
Speakers
Claas Carsten Kohl
Partner
European Dual-Use & Defense Tech Growth Fund (E2D)
Stephen Duffy
CEO, Digital and Semiconductor BU
TÜV Nord Group
Quentin Dupraz
Partner
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital
Severin Fischer
State Secretary
Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises
Robert Harrison
Strategic Consultant
European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)
Michael Hofstetter
Head of Quantum Sensing Initiative
SPRIN-D
Michael Jobst
Investment Partner
Vsquared Ventures
Adrian Mahlkow
CEO
OpTecBB
Vishal Nayar
Senior Venture Development Manager
imec
Cecile Perrault
Vice President
European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)
Jeremy Picot-Clemente
Optics & Optical Systems
EPIC Photonics
Gerrit Rössler
Head of Photonics, Microelectronics & Quantum
Berlin Partner of Economics & Technology
Enrique Sanchez Bautista
Secretariat of HL Board of Quantum
Quantum Flagship
Stephan Schulze
Investment Director
IBB Ventures
Petra Söderling
Head of Government & Consortium Relations
Quantum Strategy Institute
William Stevens
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe
Christian Trefzger
Quantum Tech & High Performance Computing
European Commission, DG CNECT
Simon Ulmer
Managing Director TÜVIT
TÜV Nord Group
Nils Wuytens
Director Technology Transfer & Investments
VITO
Scale-Up Speakers
Carlos Abellan
CEO & Co-Founder
Quside
Sriman Baratam
Co-Founder & Director of Operations
Perciv.ai
Julia Beck
Chief Growth Officer
eleQtron
Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard
Chief Commercial Officer
Sparrow Quantum
Jouni Flyktman
VP Defense & Security
IQM
Kevin Fuechsel
Managing Director & CEO
Quantum Optics Jena
François Hutin
Chief of Staff
Quobly
Philippe Notton
CEO & Founder
SiPearl
Leah Wiedenmann
PR & Communications Lead
NVision Quantum Technologies
Lennart Will
CFO
HyImpulse
Pitching Start-UPs
Garrelt Alberts
Executive Director
OrangeQS
Frederic Attia
CEO & Co-Founder
Qolumbus
Vicente Carbon
CEO
Rhonexum
Leonardo Chhabra
Head of Product Development
G2Q Computing
Maria del Valle Ortega
CEO & Co-Founder
QoolNet
Samuel Fernández Lorenzo
CEO & Co-Founder
Inspiration-Q
Christian Freier
Co-Founder and CTO
Nomad Atomics
Jimena Garcia-Romeu
CEO
Alcyon Photonics
Remi Geiger
Founder & CEO
Kwan-tek
Jesper Gretlund
CEO & Co-Founder
Lucore Technology
Laurent Guiraud
CEO
ColibriTD
Ryan Guterman
Founder & CEO
FaradaIC Sensors
Dan Holme
CEO & Co-Founder
Qoro Quantum
Alexander Jantzen
CОO & Co-Founder
Aquark Technologies
Johannes Jobst
Founder & CEO
QuantaMap
Carlos Kuchkovsky
CEO
QCentroid
José Llorens
Research Advisor and Founder
g2-Zero
Junaid Malik
Founder & CEO
Quantatrace
Alexandre Papa
Founder & CEO
Spectral Flow
Ville Polojärvi
Founder & CEO
Winse Power
Aditya Seshaditya
Founder
QuaSi
Roberto Siagri
CEO
Rotonium
Robin Sterling
CEO
Coherence Engine
Steve Stoffels
Co-Founder & CEO
Aluvia Photonics
Utku Tefek
CTO
Qubitrium
Daniel Vajner
COO & Head of Quantum
AQLS
Daniel Volz
CEO & Founder
RhymeQ Technologies
André Xuereb
Founder & CEO
Merqury Cybersecurity
Marco Zimmermann
CTO
MS Nova Technologies
Expert Panel
Jakob Banhardt
Principal
IRIS Capital
Thomas Belaid
Manager Investments
SAFRAN Corporate Ventures
Eric Belhaire
Technical Director, Senior Expert
Thales
Mark Bell
Partner
Dehns
Fabricia Beltramini
Senior Manager Digitalisation & Innovation
TÜV Nord Group
Silvia Bensel
Senior Innovation Manager Photonics, Microelectronics & Quantum
Berlin Partner of Economics & Technology
Mike Beunder
Managing Partner & Founder
TD Shepherd & Co.
Jose Brito
Coordination Quantum Technologies
OpTecBB
Quentin Calleja
Principal
Atlantic VC
Olga Chabr Grillova
General Partner
Luminova Ventures
Richard Clarke
Director General
PHABULOuS Pilot Line
Mike Collet
Managing Partner
Promus Ventures
Marco Cravetto
DeepTech Venture Capital
LIFTT
Lorenzo De Angeli
Principal
Matterwave Ventures
Klaas de Boer
Chairman
QFWventures
Jean-Michel Deligny
Chair, Investment Committee
Triple B
Franz Derler
Venture & Growth Capital, Senior Investment Advisor to the EIC Fund
European Investment Bank
Kevin Donnelly
Entrepreneurship Manager
Enterprise Ireland
Ted Elvhage
Founding Partner
Expansion Ventures
Marcus Erken
Founding Partner
Sunfish Partners
Julie Forel
Investment Manager
Speedinvest
Jerome Foret
Managing Director
Quantum Launchpad
Alexander Galitsky
Investment Manager
Constructor Capital
Alexander Galitsky
Managing Partner
Almaz Capital
Estelle Godard
Principal
Red River West
Joe Graziano
Director, Deep Tech Practice
Sheffield Haworth
Ion Hauer
Principal
APEX Ventures
Tom Haywood
Partner
24Haymarket
Claas Heise
Executive Director
NRW Bank
Isabella Hermann-Schoen
Managing Partner
Round2 Capital Partners
Thomas Heurung
Technical Director EMEA
Siemens EDA
Katrin Kobe
CEO
Bosch Quantum Sensing
Takenori Kumagai
Senior Manager Tech Scouting
JX Advanced Metals Corporation
Petri Laine
Managing Partner
Innovestor Ventures
Jerome Leclanche
Managing Partner
Seven Capital
Jose Luis Gomez
Principal
Bullnet Capital
Willi Mannheims
Managing Partner
eCapital Entrepreneurial Partners
Oliver Markl
Partner
Pava Partners
Laura Mendera
Director Business Development
CLEAR Corporate Finance
Jari Mieskonen
Managing Partner
Conor Venture Partners
Aleksander Mokrecki
Managing Partner
TangentLine Ventures
George Morgan
Investment Manager
Claret Capital Partners
Expert Guests